A couple of weeks ago, a group called the Elephant Protection Association (EPA) sent an email to a Maryland woman with elephant-hugging tendencies after she'd registered for membership online. There was an important measure coming before the General Assembly in Annapolis, HB713, which would restrict the sale of…»3/03/15 6:06pm Today 6:06pm

Hillary Clinton is defending her use of a private email address, hosted at ClintonEmail.com, to conduct official State Department business by claiming that her emails were captured by official @state.gov accounts that other agency employees were instructed to use to contact her. But according to a knowledgeable… »3/03/15 5:43pm Today 5:43pm

Various gossip outlets will have you believe that Adam Levine and Pharrell Williams are currently in a feud, partly because Pharrell has been "locking in" contestants on The Voice that would have otherwise joined Adam Levine's "team." I assure you that this is not true. »3/03/15 4:56pm Today 4:56pm

As promised, we have to go through a few more bouts of cold, icy weather before spring finally starts to settle into the country. This week will be an epic battle between cold and warm air, culminating in an ugly winter storm on Wednesday night and Thursday. It's like the weather has the flu: a sudden hot flash today… »3/03/15 4:27pm Today 4:27pm

Kristin Cavallari announced on Instagram this weekend that in addition to caring for her two toddler sons Camden and Jaxon, she will now protect and nurture one more helpless being—a puppy. It's a German Shepherd, from the looks of it. »3/03/15 3:51pm Today 3:51pm

As expected, an initial release of the Justice Department's report from their civil rights investigation into the Ferguson, Mo. police department is damning, and concludes, the New York Times reports, that officers "have routinely violated the constitutional rights of the city's black residents." »3/03/15 3:20pm Today 3:20pm

The homeless man shot and killed by police officers on L.A.'s Skid Row this past Sunday has, until now, only been identified as "Africa." Sources inside the investigation of the shooting now tell the Los Angeles Timesthat the man was 39-year-old Charley Saturmin Robinet, a convicted bank robber and French national. … »3/03/15 2:55pm Today 2:55pm

The animal kingdom is, to the delight of web users riding the dot-com wave, full of photographic evidence of disparate species getting along. "#relationshipgoals," one might tag a photo of lion hugging a man; "me and bae," you might say about a dog cuddling a cat. A weasel and a woodpecker? Save this one...FOR YOUR… »3/03/15 2:48pm Today 2:48pm

There is no way to begin a report about Kanye West's Monday lecture at the Oxford Guild Business Society that would be better or more telling than Yeezy's own opening remarks: "OK, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it'll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I… »3/03/15 2:20pm Today 2:20pm

New Yorkers who frequent Lower Manhattan have undoubtably seen Dan Perino's face plastered on one of his thousands of "looking for a girlfriend" fliers. Since he started posting the ads for companionship last summer, he's been flooded with phone calls—more than 8,000, he tells news.com.au. He also claims to have… »3/03/15 1:47pm Today 1:47pm